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The Colleges of Durham University are residential colleges that are the primary source of accommodation and support services for undergraduates and postgraduates at Durham University, as well as providing a focus for social, cultural and sporting life for their members, and offering bursaries and scholarships to students.
Durham University. Durham University (legally the University of Durham) [6] is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to open in England for more than 600 years, after Oxford and Cambridge, and is thus ...
Durham College is a public college in Ontario, Canada, with two main campuses in Oshawa and Whitby. Durham College offers over 145 [ clarification needed ] academic programs, including five honours bachelor degrees and nine apprenticeship programs, to around 13,600 full-time students.
University College was formed upon the creation of University of Durham in 1832. It was the first college of the university, and is therefore known as the "foundation college", but the university was founded explicitly on the Oxbridge model; the intention was already for the university to develop along collegiate lines in the manner of Oxford and Cambridge, as it has.
Van Mildert College (colloquially known as Van Mil or Mildert [4] [5]) is one of the 17 constituent colleges of the Durham University.The college was founded in 1965 following the Robbins Report and takes its name from William Van Mildert, [6] the last Prince-Bishop to rule the County Palatine of Durham and a leading figure in the university's foundation.
The history of Durham University spans over 190 years since it was founded by Act of Parliament. King William IV granted royal assent to the Act on 4 July 1832, and granted the university a royal charter on 1 June 1837, incorporating it and confirming its constitution. [1] The university awarded its first degrees on 8 June 1837.
In 2019, Durham University Business School became the fourth faculty of the university. [33] In 2022, the Waterside Building, on the River Wear north of the city centre, which had been developed as a new headquarters for Durham County Council, was sold to Durham University as a new home for the business school. [34]
John Snow College, Durham. John Snow College is a constituent college of Durham University. [1] The college was founded in 2001 on the University's Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, before moving to Durham in 2018. The College takes its name from the nineteenth-century Yorkshire physician John Snow, one of the founders of modern epidemiology.